| | | | You'll never believe what Trump said about the Mueller report today |  | | "The Mueller report came out -- that's the Bible."
That is a real quote said on Planet Earth by Donald John Trump on May 9, 2019.
Yes, that's the same Donald Trump who is the President of the United States. And who has spent much of the past 18 months running down special counsel Robert Mueller, the team he assembled and the report he released on Russian interference in the 2016 election and the possibility that the President obstructed that probe.
In fact, in the same impromptu press conference at the White House on Thursday where Trump praised the Mueller report as the "Bible," he also said the following:
1. The special counsel investigation was run by "17 or 18 very angry Democrats who hated Donald Trump."
2. "Bob Mueller's no friend of mine, I had conflicts with him."
3. " You look at the picture file and you see hundreds of pictures of [Mueller] and Comey."
(None of those allegations are, strictly speaking, true. Here's fact check for No. 1 and No. 2. As for No. 3, I have no idea what a "picture file" is.)
The argument Trump appears to be making -- to the extent he's making one at all -- is that while Mueller and everyone who worked for him were deeply corrupt and hated Trump, the report they produced should not be questioned. (Even though, of course, Trump himself has questioned the findings of the report. Repeatedly.)
Here's the thing: Trump uses situational logic and ethics like a champ. The Mueller report is the "Bible" because it didn't charge him or his son, Donald Trump Jr.
As Trump added: "The Mueller report came out and they said [Don Jr.] did nothing wrong." (Which is not exactly true, either; instead, Mueller's team said his office declined to pursue charges because they thought the prosecution would have "difficulties" proving that campaign officials "willfully" violated the law.)
When the Mueller report doesn't serve his purposes, it's terrible. When it does, it's the Bible. It's really that simple.
The Point: Donald Trump means what he says. But only in the second he says it.
-- Chris | | "Nadler can't even handle the gavel."
-- House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy criticizing the House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerry Nadler's move to hold the attorney general in contempt. | | | Exactly two years after President Donald Trump fired him, James Comey will speak tonight.
The former FBI director is participating in a CNN town hall beginning at 8 p.m. Eastern, moderated by Anderson Cooper.
Trump fired Comey on May 9, 2017, citing Comey's handling of the probe into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server.
Comey, who was leading the investigation into whether Trump campaign members colluded with Russians who hacked the 2016 election at the time, learned of his firing from TV screens on in the background while he addressed FBI agents in Los Angeles. | |
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The former CIA officer whose identity was revealed during the George W. Bush administration in 2003 is now running for Congress in New Mexico's 3rd District.
"My career in the CIA was cut short by partisan politics, but I'm not done serving our country," said Plame, who is running as a Democrat, in a statement about her candidacy. "We need more people in Congress with the courage to stand up for what's right."
The NM-03 seat is open -- vacated by current Rep. Ben Ray Luján who is running for the Senate -- and several Democrats have said they're considering running for the seat. | |
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Amy Klobuchar: Is taking her campaign to Puerto Rico on Saturday to tour disaster recovery efforts and talk about infrastructure.
Elizabeth Warren: Is getting the Time Magazine cover profile treatment with a piece on her campaign's emphasis on big ideas.
Joe Biden: Comes out on top of the latest poll out of New Hampshire with 38% support among likely Democratic primary voters, followed by Bernie Sanders at 18%.
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